US forces carried out new strikes against two sites in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for attacks by “Iran and Iran-backed groups,”, US Central Command said, AFP reports.

The US military “conducted discrete, precision strikes against two facilities in Iraq,” Centcom said on X, previously Twitter.

“The strikes were in direct response to the attacks against US and Coalition forces by Iran and Iran-backed groups,” the post added, and come the day after a previous US air strike killed multiple Iranian-backed militiamen in Iraq.

Wednesday’s attacks were carried out by US fighter aircraft on two facilities south of Baghdad, a Pentagon source said on condition of anonymity.

Hours earlier, a warplane struck a militia facility where Iranian-backed forces had fired a short-range ballistic missile at American and allied personnel in the country, the Pentagon said.

“We can confirm an attack last night by Iran-backed militias using a close-range ballistic missile against US and coalition forces at Al-Asad Airbase, which resulted in eight injuries and some minor damage to infrastructure,” Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder said in a statement.

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